Santio Crossing, Utah

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Uintah and Ouray census division. The Survey maps it on the Agency Draw NE quadrangle.

Santio Crossing within Uintah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1885 USGS East Tavaputs quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1956 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1966 USGS Agency Draw NE quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Seep Ridge quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Santio Crossing between 1992 and 2019, burning about 87 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	32
Debris and open burning	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Vernal Field Office	BATES
24 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Vernal Field Office	WATER TRUCK
9 August 2016	Natural	8.5 acres	Vernal Field Office	BUCK CANYON
6 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Vernal Field Office	BRBNK CRSN
26 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Vernal Field Office	NORTH BUCK CANYON
24 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Vernal Field Office	TANK
23 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Vernal Field Office	CTNWD WASH
21 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Vernal Field Office	DUST

Every fire recorded in Uintah County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Santio Crossing: 3 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Vanadium, Uranium, Vanadium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Unknown #28	Uranium, Vanadium	Occurrence
Blue Knolls	Uranium	Prospect
Fools Luck	Uranium, Vanadium	Occurrence	Carnotite
School Section 2	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	Carnotite
Unknown	Uranium, Vanadium	Occurrence	Carnotite

Every working recorded in Uintah County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fairbanks Crossing	7.9 miles	19
Rainbow	22.3 miles	19
Watson	24.6 miles	19
Ouray	24.7 miles	17
Dragon	27.2 miles	19
Little Bonanza	28.5 miles	17
Bonanza	29.1 miles	17
Leota	31.3 miles	17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122565234

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1437676. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.